Product Designer – Advertising

Spotify

Product Designer for Spotify's Advertising R&D team enhancing user experiences on a complex ad platform. Work alongside engineers and product managers to shape design and drive product innovation.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design end-to-end user experiences across Spotify's self-serve advertising platform (Ads Manager), contributing to features like ad creation, targeting, reporting, optimization, and measurement.
Work within and contribute to a shared design system used across Ads Manager and internal tools, with attention to component reusability, accessibility, and visual consistency.
Collaborate with engineers to translate backend systems, APIs, and ML-powered features into interfaces that are intuitive and performant.
Partner with PMs, engineers, data scientists, researchers, and content designers to shape product direction, advocate for user needs, and help influence your team's roadmap.
Build prototypes using real data and motion where relevant to explore technical constraints, validate interaction models, and communicate product behavior in dynamic, data-driven environments.
Work alongside researchers and data scientists to identify the right questions to answer, and use insights to deepen your team's understanding of user problems.
Support design efforts on internal tools used by operational teams, helping reduce manual processes and improve the efficiency and reliability of internal workflows.
Contribute to a feedback-rich team culture that values critique, iteration, and craft excellence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have experience designing complex, data-intensive B2B digital products.
You take ownership of design quality across your squad and can manage priorities effectively when working across multiple features or workstreams.
You have a strong visual design foundation and care about the details that elevate work from functional to excellent.
You connect design decisions to business goals and customer needs, and can advocate for those decisions clearly with stakeholders.
You're curious about AI, whether that's using AI tools in your design workflow, designing AI-powered features, or both.
You're comfortable with ambiguity and bring structure and curiosity to problems where there isn't always a clear path forward.
You actively seek feedback on your work and thinking, and give thoughtful critique in return.
You foster inclusive collaboration: you proactively bring others in and hold space for different perspectives.
Nice to have: Experience designing advertising, monetization, or creative automation tools.
Nice to have: Background in operational tooling or designing for internal users with complex, high-volume workflows.
Nice to have: Experience contributing to or maintaining large-scale design systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones.
Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace.
We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008.
Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators.

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Hard Skills & Tools

user experience designprototypingvisual designdata-driven designdesign systemsB2B digital productsAI-powered featuresinteraction modelsaccessibilitycomponent reusability

Soft Skills

ownership of design qualitymanaging prioritiesadvocating for design decisionscuriositycomfort with ambiguityseeking feedbackinclusive collaborationcritique and iterationshaping product directionfostering team culture